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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 1790751" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>That piece of research in your link [USER=472744]@Alison54321[/USER] is, of course, nonsense. It has been posted on here before some time ago. This is why</p><p></p><p>To conduct the study, the researchers tested 450 adult patients with Type 2 diabetes in North Carolina. None were being treated with insulin and all had baseline A1C levels (glycated hemoglobin) between 6.5 and 9.5 per cent, considered fair.</p><p></p><p>The patients were then divided into three groups:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No self-monitoring of blood glucose.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Once-a-day monitoring.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Enhanced once-a-day monitoring, with the meter delivering automated messages of encouragement or instruction.</li> </ul><p>One year later, there were "no significant differences" across the groups when it came to glycemic control, health-related quality of life, or hospitalizations or ER visits.</p><p></p><p>"We were not able to find a difference in the health outcomes we were looking at," says Donahue. "We did not find harms, nor did we find benefits."</p><p></p><p>Of course there were no benefits. Once a day monitoring is a waste of time and teaches you nothing at all. I'm fairly sure most of us on this forum know that. Had they been asked to test their meals and eat to their meter it would have produced different results. And one has to wonder what the automated messages said!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 1790751, member: 94045"] That piece of research in your link [USER=472744]@Alison54321[/USER] is, of course, nonsense. It has been posted on here before some time ago. This is why To conduct the study, the researchers tested 450 adult patients with Type 2 diabetes in North Carolina. None were being treated with insulin and all had baseline A1C levels (glycated hemoglobin) between 6.5 and 9.5 per cent, considered fair. The patients were then divided into three groups: [LIST] [*]No self-monitoring of blood glucose. [*]Once-a-day monitoring. [*]Enhanced once-a-day monitoring, with the meter delivering automated messages of encouragement or instruction. [/LIST] One year later, there were "no significant differences" across the groups when it came to glycemic control, health-related quality of life, or hospitalizations or ER visits. "We were not able to find a difference in the health outcomes we were looking at," says Donahue. "We did not find harms, nor did we find benefits." Of course there were no benefits. Once a day monitoring is a waste of time and teaches you nothing at all. I'm fairly sure most of us on this forum know that. Had they been asked to test their meals and eat to their meter it would have produced different results. And one has to wonder what the automated messages said! [/QUOTE]
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